Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753070Ab2BAXhw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:37:52 -0500 Received: from hqemgate04.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.35]:12861 "EHLO hqemgate04.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752131Ab2BAXhv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:37:51 -0500 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:37:48 -0800 From: Stephen Warren To: Linus Walleij , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" CC: Grant Likely , Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Shawn Guo , Thomas Abraham , Dong Aisheng , Rajendra Nayak , Haojian Zhuang , Linus Walleij Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:37:47 -0800 Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps Thread-Index: AczhET3kpWYNrH1PStOmD4UB78Y+IwAKS5iA Message-ID: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF178E124918@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> References: <1328121721-3438-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> In-Reply-To: <1328121721-3438-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 22 Linus Walleij wrote at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:42 AM: > After discussion with Mark Brown in an unrelated thread about > ADC lookups, it came to my knowledge that the ability to pass > a struct device * in the regulator consumers is just a > historical artifact, and not really recommended. Since there > are no in-kernel users of these pointers, we just kill them > right now, before someone starts to use them. > > Reviewed-by: Mark Brown > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Documentation, Acked-by: Stephen Warren -- nvpublic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/